it is hard to defend the hill that i will die loneliest on — the excellence of the Merlin Cycle of the Chronicles of Amber — because i uniformly like and appreciate the people it needs defending from and there is little i can say without absolutely going for their throats
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Replying to @chaosprime
There's a lot of good Zelazny delight in the Second Chronicles, but I feel like many of the macro decisions in it undercut things I greatly valued in the First Chronicles.
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Replying to @womzilla @chaosprime
E.g., the existence of the Logrus and the sentience of the Pattern moves Amber out of "unique cosmology" to "another mere set of warring gods" and that diminishes the First series.
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Replying to @womzilla
that's not unreasonable, though i do feel that the existence of the Logrus was implied strongly enough in the Corwin Cycle. and you're not wrong that them being sapient is a loss, worldbuilding-wise. which is part of why i think that's a red herring
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tl;dr "the Pattern and Logrus were never sapient at a level that we could directly communicate with and the appearance of them being so is a result of them being manipulated by Brand and Deirdre's transformed consciousnesses" is not even particularly off the wall for Roger
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